Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Sixty one percent of Donald Trump's supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,… — Evangeline Booth Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
I think also, obviously, having someone like Lucas [Goodman], and the people around me are very, not gender-driven or any of that,… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image